Sherlock Holmes: Revealing the detective's place in pop culture

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<b>The scene:</b> The Turtles are in England, when they are taken back to the past by an experimental atomic clock and must team with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to get the clock back and return to the present. You might recall this premise leaked its way into the epic Super Nintendo video game "Turtles in Time."<br>
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<b>The Sherlock reference? It's elementary:</b> One could probably start with the title of this episode ("Elementary, My Dear Turtle"). And of course, there's the fact that the "heroes in a half shell" are depending on the world's greatest detective to get them back to their own time as they battle evil foes along the way.

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The scene: The Turtles are in England, when they are taken back to the past by an experimental atomic clock and must team with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to get the clock back and return to the present. You might recall this premise leaked its way into the epic Super Nintendo video game "Turtles in Time."

The Sherlock reference? It's elementary: One could probably start with the title of this episode ("Elementary, My Dear Turtle"). And of course, there's the fact that the "heroes in a half shell" are depending on the world's greatest detective to get them back to their own time as they battle evil foes along the way.

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